Isabel Allende Quotes

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

Isabel Allende

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• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Challenge

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Women
  • Children
  • Practice

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Technology
  • Company
  • Retail

• The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Thinking
  • English
  • Language

• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Know
  • Always

• One of the things I love about music is live performance.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Live
  • Things

• When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Money
  • Death
  • Food

• The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up

• I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • People
  • Hope
  • Integrity

• I'm not attacking anyone. I have no animosity towards Lana, I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Perspective

• The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Value

• Codeine...bourbon...

  

  Tallulah Bankhead

• When I moved from consumer banking to international banking, I thought I brought a lot of insights from India we could implement globally.

  

  Chanda Kochhar

• A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Spirit
  • Existence
  • Development

• I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • Very
  • Felt
  • Upset

• A France or a Belgium is not quite a sovereign nation any more, and thus does not have complete control over its national destiny or foreign relations.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Control
  • Destiny

• On a huge hill, Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddenness resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.

  

  John Donne
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Night

• Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

  

  Isabel Allende
  • Truth
  • Risk
  • Seek